If Yuna & Grace both go clean, Yuna will still beat Gracie b/c of her PCS.

Yu Na would score higher on TES too. The U.S Nationals is the best Gold has ever skated, and obviously Nationalistic based scoring that would automatically be lower at a Worlds or Olympics, and her TES was still lower than Kim from Worlds last year.

If Yuna & Grace both go clean, Yuna will still beat Gracie b/c of her PCS.

Compare PCS Yuna gets from her international comps & GG gets from hers. Gracie's not going to get Yuna's PCS overnight just because she won the US Nats once.

Yuna will destroy Gracie on TES and PCS. Gracie has better spins than Yuna, but her jump quality is lacking in comparison. Gracie may be able to do all the jumps, but her jumps deserve meager GOE. Her jumps do not have flow or ice coverage. I actually thought her jumps in her Nationals free skate were very poor quality. 3-3 was very poor in comparison to Yuna's - no flow and no ice coverage. The same as the rest of her jumps, which are more comparable to Julia Lipnitskaia's than Yuna Kim's.

actually julia is more of a threat than gracie.. but if gracie is clean and managed to do all the jumps then i think she has a chance.. though it will depend how yuna, mao, kostner, akiko, and the russian girls will do..

actually julia is more of a threat than gracie.. but if gracie is clean and managed to do all the jumps then i think she has a chance.. though it will depend how yuna, mao, kostner, akiko, and the russian girls will do..

Julia is talented and Julia has a chance to podium but Gracie has edge because of her body type - she looks like a blossomed lady already
she is faster, has bigger jumps thus can rack higher GOE

I think Gracie can beat the Russians if they all hit (and home ice scoring doesn't inflate the Russian's performances) but she's for sure going to need help from Yuna Kim and Mao Asada imo. Carolina Kostner has looked vulnerable this season - I think she is beatable.

No American will medal, including Gold. It doesn't matter what she does; there will be at least four or five skaters ahead of her in the final standings. Yuna, Mao and Akiko are skaters she can't touch with a ten-foot pole no matter how they skate, Julia and Adelina's clean performances are already better than her clean performances and they will get higher scores still because the judges will want one of them on the podium, and then there's Carolina Kostner, who may be shaky and inconsistent but will be the darling of the judges and the audience.

I'm sorry, guys, but the question of Gold getting a medal only occurs to American fans. No one else can see it happening.